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Ooooooh! Chocolate Mousse... I was thinking about Chocolate Mousse these days because we had bought too much heavy cream for topping the wheatless plantain pancakes... Speaking of raw eggs. My neighbor brought me 2 kilos beef liver from grass fed beef and mentioned last night that he prepares a "shake" with raw liver and orange juice... for what, I don't really remember... The idea is a bit sickening, although I know that raw beef liver is recommended for a certain illness here or possibly iron deficiency. But it was something else I heard about years ago and forgot... Probably because I can't imagine anyone consuming raw beef liver in any form... Granted, when I prepare it, I avoid over cooking it, meaning that it is possibly reddish-pink in the middle... if it was a slight bit raw inside, it doesn't bother me...

As for absorption of vitamin Bs... I'll have to look into that, especially since that's the job of your Ileum, which we don't know how much was used for your Pouch and if the part used for the pouch still absorbs vitamins and minerals... If you don't have issues with Vitamin C, you shouldn't have issues with the Vitamins B, since most of your Vitamin C is absorbed in the Ileum.

As for Collagen... Jello (not the brand)... In Mexico it is called Grenadina... Pure unsweetened, unflavored Grenadine or collagen... with an extractor or juicer you can make your own naturally flavored jello... During the 32 years following my colectomy and scar tissue surgeries, I've avoided Jello like the plague (too much in the hospital diet...) But, Margarita began preparing it from natural collagen/grenadine with guavas and I became a fan again.

Another way of getting your collagen is by preparing bone broths... if you don't have a histamine problem (inability to metabolize histamine/undermethylization). The amino acid Glutathione in Gelatin increases histamines. The amino acid Methionine in muscle meats decreases histamines. When I read about gelatin/collagen I became incredibly enthusiastic and immediately ran out to the butcher for beef shins, beef ribs and who knows what else and prepared an incredible beef soup high in bone broth. The amount of gelatin/collagen from the shins/hooves thickened the soup like would wheat flour...(roux) It was delicious! and then I turned into a Jellyfish... I began inflating during the evening. My weight increased 3 kilos in just a few hours! For those from the U.S., 3 kilos is about 6.5 pounds... I jiggled if I moved... there was so much water suddenly below my skin... Then I read about undermethylization/problems with metabolizing hystamines... It's very interesting; if you have hystamine reaction requiring anti-hystamines, maybe you should just eat a chicken breast or a few steaks and the methiononine contrabalances the glutathione. It's very interesting; the contrasts: In the same body, skeleton vs muscle, skeletal muscle protects the bones of the skeleton from fracture and also moves the skeleton, while the skeleton gives structure to the muscles... the muscles produce the amino acid methiononine that balances the amino acid produced by the bones, glutathione...

You not only need collagen for strong healthy joints, you need it for good sleep etc... I also believe that the glutathione in collagen/gelatin regulates weight... Methiononine, on the other hand, prevents cancer at certain levels; although there are proponents who claim that it is the methionine in meat that promotes cancer... But, that's like the argument against omega 6 essencial fatty acids and inflamation. Too little and you die. Too much and you become chronically ill... Omega 6 is necessary for your immunological response. The inflamation is necessary for isolating and overcoming antigens etc. But too much inflamation and your body ceases functioning well and you develop disease...

Sharon, I would love to get back into the research on collagen... it's also very important for reducing stress (which is ironic since inflamation is directly connected with stress if collagen can causes inflamation--in those with problems with histamines).

When people think about histamines, they think of allergic reactions and hives etc. But, what most people don't know (like the methiononine and glutathione or Omega 3 vs Omega 6 etc) is that histamine is extremely necessary for the immune system. Certain foods give us histamines; and our body produces histamines on its own. If I'm correct histamines are also necessary for the circulatory system to work smoothly...

Truthfully, nutrition classes should have been a requirement like gym from elementary school through high school... We shouldn't be half learning about our bodies through pharmaceuticals... Who would have known about histamines without needing to take anti-hystamines. But no one learned what truly are histamines... Who learns about omega 3 before learning that they must take cod liver oil or eat salmon for lowering blood pressure? But do they truly learn that our body produces its own HDL cholesterol and how Omega 3 and Omega 6 balance each other out for optimal health etc?

You take Vitamin C for preventing colds. But do you know what Vitamin C truly does in your body? You think that Insulin is a bad guy regarding Diabetes II or you believe that it is a good guy... And you understand that people with "childhood diabetes" or Mellitus I must inject insulin for being able to metabolize glucose (for being able to create energy without consuming their own muscle cells). But do you know what Insulin truly does within the body?

The anti-protein and anti-fat "people" don't understand that all hormones and enzymes are formed by proteins and that all tissues and cell membranes are formed by the combination of protein, fat and cholesterol... Udo Erasmus wrote, "the easiest way to kill a dog is not by starvation; it is by giving the dog a diet 100% carbohydrate" when they truly need fat and protein for maintaining tissue structure.

If we truly understood how are bodies function, maybe we wouldn't be visiting the farmacies and doctors... and we would know how to eat...

You want to lower your blood pressure? Increase dramatically your vitamin c intake (non-suppliment), increase your levels of Vitamin D by spending more time in the midday sun, increase your levels of Potassium... and, maybe, increase your levels of Collagen, since the glycine in collagen/gelatin helps your sleep... Glycine is a building block for Glutathione...

Ross
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